keynote tony watts european summit in canterbury 2014
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Structure
Historical review of European-level developments in the career guidance field: NICE as one of three complementary European networks
Challenges to role of career professionals (e.g. recently in UK): importance of NICE’s work
Cognate professions: need to attend to career development of careers professionals
European Vision
‘To substitute for age-old rivalries the merging of essential interests; to create, by establishing an economic Community, the basis for a broader and deeper community among peoples long divided by bloody conflicts; and to lay the foundations for institutions which will give direction to a destiny henceforward shared’.
Preamble to European Coal and Steel Community Treaty (1951)
EU Initiatives:
Foundations 1957-92
–Some actions within vocational training (no powers in education)
–Comparative policy-oriented surveys (precursors of 2004 OECD review)
–Transnational action programmes
EU Initiatives:
Consolidation (1992-2000)
–Extension of powers to cover education (1992)
–Single European Market (1992): focus on mobility
–Establishment of Euroguidance Network
–Studies of occupational profiles of vocational counsellors (CEDEFOP, 1992; FEDORA, 1998)
EU Initiatives:
Elevation (2000 to date)
–Communication on Lifelong Learning (2001)
–Expert Group on Lifelong Guidance (2002-07)
–European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) (2007 to date)
–Council Resolutions (2004; 2008)
–European Training Foundation work in neighbouring countries
–Establishment of NICE
Importance of Links to Public Policy
Most services are publicly funded
Access to career guidance as a human right
A public good as well as a private good:
- Lubricating the education and training system
- Lubricating the labour market
- Promoting social equity and social justice
Turbulence in UK
Marginalisation under Connexions
Careers Profession Task Force (Towards a Strong Careers Profession)
Establishment of Career Development Institute
Recent marginalisation under current Coalition Government
Challenges to Professions
‘All professions are conspiracies against the laity’ (Shaw)
Exacerbated by technology and ease of public access to information: reframes the role of professions
Changing Concept of Career
From: progression up an ordered hierarchy within an organisation or profession
To: lifelong progression in learning and work
Need to apply this to our career structures too
Career Development of
Careers Professionals
To include career development into and out from the profession, as well as within it
Cf. UK Careers Profession Task Force concepts of ‘Careers First’ and ‘Careers Last’
Need also to value paraprofessionals, and provide stepping-stones for them too